To help you learn the basics of effective altruism, we took some of the movement's best writing and made this handbook. Think of it as the textbook you'd get for a college course on EA. It explains the core ideas, so that you can start applying them to your own life. To help you learn the basics of effective altruism, we took some of the movement's best writing and made this handbook. Think of it as the textbook you'd get for a college course on EA. It explains the core ideas, so that you can start applying them to your own life. Nate Soares writes about replacing guilt with other feelings and finding better ways to self-motivate, so that you can build a better future without falling apart first. Holden Karnofsky argues that there is a good chance of a productivity explosion by 2100, which could quickly lead to a "technologically mature" civilization. Sequences are collections of posts on a common theme, or that build on each other. They help authors to develop ideas in ways that would be difficult in a single post. You can also add posts written by other people to a sequence if you think they should be read together.
